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Alan Cross
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How you can save on wireless and streaming versus the other big guys at t mobile.com/apple intelligence requires iOS 18.1 or later. We've been talking about life beyond Earth for decades, and one of the best places to look, for starters, are the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Wouldn't it be cool if we could land a probe on one of them and have a little look around? But that won't happen for decades, right? Well, wrong. It already happened. In 2005, the Huygens Space probe descended to the surface of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. It was a monumental achievement in space exploration. Oh, forgot about that one, huh? Let's try another. Anyone remember when an entire country went bankrupt? You would if you were from Iceland. In 2008, the entire Icelandic banking system collapsed, forcing the nation to declare bankruptcy. But Iceland recovered by actually holding bankers accountable and initiating a series of financial reforms that are worth studying by other countries. Don't remember that one? Okay, one more. How about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010? It was the largest marine oil spill in history and caused an incredible amount of environmental and economic damage. They even made a movie about it, along with a bunch of documentaries. No? Okay, well, my point is that news and world events come at us so fast and from so many angles. They occupy our attention for all of a hot minute. But then we either become overwhelmed or bored or distracted by something else. We move on and we forget or we bury the information deep. I sometimes think that we're approaching the human limit of being able to process all the information that comes at us every second. And if we can't do that, we can't learn any lessons from the past, we can't understand why we are where we are, and we can't predict where we might go in the future. That's why it's important for us to stop, look back, and see what happened. This is chapter nine of the 100 greatest rock moments of the 21st century so far. This is the ongoing History of New Music Podcast with Alan Cross. Hi there, I'm Alan Cross, and this is the ninth of ten installments of a review of all the things that happened in rock over the last 25 years. We're a quarter of the way through the century, so this is a good time to take stock of things. We're looking at people, events, things and developments that, if they didn't shape the course of music history, certainly were a big deal at the time. Again, this is my list based on everything I've seen and investigated with this show over the decades. If you were to put together your own list, it might contain different things or with everything ranked in a different order because your personal experiences and perspectives are different from mine, which is okay, that's the fun thing about lists. It's the arguing that comes with them. Before we begin with chapter nine, if you missed any of the previous eight installments that we've counted down from 100, they're all available as ongoing history podcasts. This time, though, we're looking at items 20 to 11. Item 20 is the slow shift in attitude when it comes to the notion of an artist selling out. Before 2000, the idea of an act licensing their music to a product or service was considered to be a giant sin, something that was punishable with scorn and ridicule. Calling a band a sellout was a giant insult that came with such weight that it could actually end a career. Today, meh, everyone is licensing their music for something. Movie trailers, TV shows, commercials of all kinds. Licensing your music this way today is considered to be an essential part of any act's income stream. Why? Because acts need money to survive. Only the thinnest upper layer of musicians are making any meaningful money from streaming. Physical sales of music have dropped 90% in the last 25 years. You can only tour so much, and that's both expensive and exhausting. But if you can get a placement in a commercial or in a TV Show. That's some quick short term cash for a bigger artist. It helps replace lost income from physical music sales. For indie bands, a sync deal can make the difference between paying the rent or going hungry. The person perhaps most responsible for this is Moby. In 1999, he released his Play album. In a very big gamble. His management team offered all 18 songs on the album to ad agencies, film studios and TV producers. This, they thought, would get Moby's music out to a wider audience. A far bigger audience than he'd ever had in the past through touring and radio airplay. And it worked. Companies like Nordstrom, Volkswagen and Levi's bit. Every single track was licensed. Everyone heard about Mobi as a result, and Play ended up selling 12 million copies. That was a big wake up call to the artist community. Especially in the one or two years that followed when music piracy exploded and and physical sales cratered. The trend continued to the point where licensing music is now part of any artist's business plan. Selling out isn't a bad thing anymore. In fact, it's something to aspire to. That's how much the financial environment for artists has changed in the last 25 years. And all you have to do for proof is to turn on a TV and you'll hear it. Moby licensed this track to Kahlua. I wonder what that contract was worth. And I wonder how many people discovered Moby through a liqueur commercial. Moby and Porcelain from the Play album. After he showed how there was money to be made from licensing music in an industry where physical media was dying, Moby changed the concept of selling out. That's number 20 in our list of the 20 momentous things that happened in rock so far this century. At number 19, it's another death. This time it's Chris Cornell on May 18, 2017, in room 1136 of the MGM Grand Hotel in Detroit. What a punch to the gut. After years apart, Soundgarden was back together, recording and touring. It felt like the band had really settled into a new phase of their career. There was no indication that Chris was in any kind of peril. But something went very wrong. In the two hours after Soundgarden left the stage at the nearby Fox hotel at around 11:15, we know the following. Chris was accompanied to the hotel by his bodyguard. Chris was feeling anxious after the show and was afraid he wouldn't be able to sleep. So he took a couple of Ativan tablets. He called his wife at 11:35 and talked to her for a little while before saying that he was tired and just wanted to go to bed. When the bodyguard then checked on him at 12:15, there was no answer at his door. The bodyguard was so concerned that he kicked in the door and he found Chris in a locked bathroom with a red exercise band around his neck and blood running from his mouth. A hotel medic was called, an ambulance was called, but it was too late. At 1:30, Chris Cornell was declared dead. A coroner's report would rule that it was suicide, death by hanging. But what really happened between about 11:45 and 12:15, we will never know the specifics. Vicki Cornell, Chris widow, sued Chris doctor for prescribing the Ativad. And there's been a legal fight over the future of Soundgarden ever since. Meanwhile, fans are still grieving the loss. It's been so lonely without you here Like a bird without a song Nothing can stop these alone. If we have Chris Cornell's Death at number 19 on this list, number 18 has to be the death of Chester Bennington of Linkin Park. Chester and Chris were great, great friends, often commiserating about their various personal demons. Chester, though, seemed to have a certain fragile nature. He had all sorts of issues. Abused as a child, addiction to coke and meth, a drinking problem, lingering depression, failed attempts at rehab, a couple of suicide attempts. It was good that he and Chris found each other. But when Chris died, something in Chester broke. At first, it looked like he was coping. Linkin park was back, recording and ready to tour. He seemed happy and secure and super happy with his family life. In July 2017, a couple of months after Chris passed, Chester bailed on a vacation with the family in Arizona, saying that he had to get back to LA for a Linkin park video shoot. But something went very wrong on the evening of July 20, 2017. The next morning, a housekeeper found his body hanging from a door in the bedroom. No drugs were found. There was no alcohol outside of a bottle of beer. The autopsy found nothing of concern in his blood. What happened? We have no idea. The only possible clue is that July 20th would have been Chris Cornell's 53rd birthday. The death of Chester Bennington, number 18 on our list of things that shook the world of rock so far this century. Linkin park was absent from the scene for a long, long time after Chester's death, as everybody tried to adjust. It was only in late 2024 that they returned with a couple of lineup changes, and we'll see how that plays out. Moving to number 17, it's the indie rock revival of the early 2000s. It was a Broad cultural movement that stretched across North America and parts of Europe that brought back stripped down guitar based rock. This was important because at the end of the 1990s it did look like guitar rock was dead. It was all about electronica. Remember that word? Which was predicted to take rock into a whole new direction, away from what it had always been. But a few bands had other ideas. Many of them were based in New York. We had the Strokes, the yeah yeah yeah, Interpol, TV on the radio. We had the White Stripes coming out of Detroit. There were the Hives from Sweden, the Libertines from England, Franz Ferdinand from Scotland. It was all very underground at the beginning, but the music was good, so it started to seep upwards. Songs turned into radio hits. Songs started showing up on tv, in movies and in commercials. Festivals like Coachella in America and Glastonbury in the UK started booking these bands. And let's not forget the impact of Napster and illegal file sharing. Suddenly it was super easy to check out some band that you may have heard that was supposedly really cool. No more drudging around record stores looking for their stuff. The indie rock revival was one of the very first examples of how the new digital world could produce and sustain a brand new musical movement and trend. Many of these bands went on to do great things. The Strokes continue to be revered. The Hives are still with us. The Yay Yeahs have an amazing reputation that extends through the Academy Awards. And do I really need to explain the impact of the White Stripes?
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Alan Cross
The White Stripes, part of the very important and long lasting indie rock revival that began in the early 2000s. It was a sound, it was a movement and it was an attitude that breathed new life into guitar based rock. And it's something that we still feel today. In a moment, we'll continue our little countdown with a couple of controversial things that are still shaping how we enjoy music.
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This is episode nine of a list of the 100 most important things in rock so far this century. And at number 16, it's how mainstream music became a niche. Now let's start by defining mainstream. These are the ideas, trends, attitudes and activities that are considered normal, widespread, and something that everybody partakes in to some extent. If the average person knows about something in society or culture or politics, then it is part of the mainstream. Before 2000, mainstream attitudes dominated everything. Everyone got their news from television, radio, newspapers and magazines. We all went to the same movies, we all watched the same network TVs, and we all watched the big cable channels and we all talked about the same books. When it came to music, we all generally listened to the same thing, or at the very least, we were all aware of all the music that was out there, even the stuff we didn't like. This is because we had such a very limited amount of music to choose from and very few avenues to listen to this music. There were five main record labels which filtered through all the wannabe musicians, signing and promoting only those who had commercial potential or serious artistic attributes. Those artists then had their music sold in record stores which further filtered things by stocking only what they wanted. Fewer than 3,000 albums were released every year. Compared to today, that's nothing. Radio was another cultural gatekeeper. It was immensely powerful in creating hits and creating stars. Same thing with TV video channels. And finally, we had music magazines, Our only real conduit into the personal and professional lives of our favorite musicians. The result was that the big stars were absolutely ubiquitous. They were everywhere. There was a monoculture. Even if you had no interest or if you hated a particular artist, they were so prevalent in the mainstream that you knew about them by osmosis. We had a common music vocabulary, and the number of genres we had to choose from was exponentially smaller than it is today. To be a star back then was to be really, really big. But starting around 2000, the Internet came along, allowing us free and unfettered access to more music than we could ever hope to afford. It was more music than we'd ever dreamed of. We made discovery after discovery, from a new band in your hometown to a cool electronic group from, I don't know, France or Ghana. Over the next five or six years, everything changed. The power the traditional cultural gatekeepers enjoyed before the rise of the Internet waned quickly. Record labels saw their business model of selling pieces of plastic, something that they'd been doing for 100 years, collapse. Fewer and fewer people went to record stores. Big international chains started going out of business. Labels could no longer afford to advertise in music magazines, leading to a collapse in their revenue. Meanwhile, more and more people started getting their music information online instead from a magazine. And of course, we've Talked about this. YouTube killed off music videos on television. About the only thing that has survived is radio, which is still powerful, profitable and popular, although it has to share its position with the digital world these days. Still, though, everyone is now their own music director. We are able to listen to whatever songs we want, whenever we want it, wherever we happen to be, and on whatever device we happen to have. The bottom line is that music culture is now a series of disconnected or barely connected, self organizing music communities that come together and break up with alarming frequency. The common mainstream music culture we had before 2000 is gone. You go back to the bible and the Tower of Babel, that's what we got. Try this for a test. Walk up to a random person on the street and ask them to name three Taylor Swift singles. If this were 1995, Taylor would have been way more popular than she is today. And everyone, I mean everyone, would have been exposed to her music Daily. So answering that question, name me three singles would have been very easy today though, unless you happen to pick a swiftie, that person would probably have some trouble coming up with those titles. Now we still have big stars, but unless you were around before 2000, you have no idea of how much bigger mainstream stars used to be. It's not something that you can quantify with streaming numbers or chart positions. It's a feeling, it's an understanding. It's this sensation of being part of something that everyone else is part of and in which everyone participated to some extent. That doesn't happen anymore. For better or for worse, there is little common culture when it comes to music these days. Which means that to be mainstream, having appeal to casual music fans who are happy with being able to sing along and tap fingers to the steering wheel and little else is just to be part of another of many musical avenues and genres. There is no longer anything special about being mainstream. The English singer Thea Gilmour singing about fighting against the mainstream, something that may be easier than ever thanks to the Internet and the disappearance of a widespread common musical culture. At number 15 on this list of the top 100 moments in rock so far this century is something that is still playing out. The rise of Live Nation and Ticketmaster as the dominant forces in concerts. The story starts with the founding of Ticketmaster in 1976 in Phoenix. The original goal was to develop software for the just emerging computerized ticket market. Inventory needed to be tracked and controlled, pricing had to be maintained and distribution had to be clear cut. The big deal was that Ticketmaster system allowed venues to manage ticket sales directly. The company grew slowly at first, but then a guy named Fred Rosen was hired as CEO in 1982 and he put things into overdrive. He was very aggressive about things like adding service charges and this created a new revenue stream. Ticketmaster then expanded all across the US and then North America, buying up competitors and creating important partnerships with venues, promoters and sports teams. By the end of the 80s, no one could touch Ticketmaster's technology. Their software systems were superior and this allowed the company to convince venues and promoters to sign exclusive agreements. They also bought Tickatron, their main rival, in 1991. Ticketmaster embraced the Internet in the 90s, launching an online platform in 1996, which was very, very early in the game. By the end of the decade, Ticketmaster was an extremely valuable company. It was sold a couple of times over the next 10 years, culminated with it turning into a publicly traded company in 2008. And then came Live Nation. Put a pin in that. Live Nation went through a long evolution too. It started as SFX Entertainment in the 90s, a regional concert promoter. But then it quickly acquired other local promoters. By 2000, SFX was the largest concert promotion company in the world. At that point, it was sold to Clear channel communications for $4.4 billion. Now we have Clear Channel Entertainment, which consolidated concert promotion with its radio properties. This was a very bumpy ride. So Clear Channel spun everything off into a separate division in 2005, and that spinoff was renamed Live Nation. Live Nation immediately went into growth mode, buying up even more smaller promoters. They also had the idea of creating their own computerized ticketing company, but that proved to be very difficult. So in 2010, the decision was made to buy Ticketmaster. There were regulatory concerns about this, but the merger was allowed by all the authorities. And this made the combo of Live Nation and Ticketmaster the dominant players in all of the live venue world. There's almost no country in the world where Live Nation and Ticketmaster don't operate. In 2024, Live Nation ran 11,203 separate events, while Ticketmaster sold over 118 million tickets. Plus Live Nation. Ticketmaster is also involved in owning and managing over 200 venues. There is no other entity that shapes how we buy tickets to shows, how live events are promoted, and what we get when we go to gigs. Now, is that good or bad? Is the Live Nation Ticketmaster combo too big and too powerful? Are there practices that add up to an antitrust situation that's been debated for years. And unless governments step in to break things up, that debate will continue. There's another aspect to this, too. Live Nation has created partnerships with specific artists. In March 2008, they struck a 12 year deal with U2 that covered multiple aspects of their career that included touring merch and a complex digital strategy that was insanely successful, turning U2 for a time into the richest touring band in the world. It also cemented Live nations and Ticketmaster's position as as the industry powerhouse U2 live in Paris in 2015 as part of their Innocence and Experience tour, a gig that fell under the partnership deal they did with Live Nation. And the rise of Live Nation and TicketMaster is number 15 on our list of the biggest moments in rock so far this century. At number 14, I have the ubiquity of cell phones at concerts. The century began with concert tickets emblazoned with the warning no cameras or recording devices allowed. 99% of artists and promoters were dead against anyone bootlegging shows and even taking unauthorized pictures. They wanted complete control. I remember going to shows where cameras were confiscated at the door, even ones that had been carefully hidden somewhere. And woe to anyone who brought in a tape machine or something similar. But with the rise of smartphones after about 2007, this became a losing battle. Promoters gave up enforcing that rule and Axe more or less just learned to live with it. Mostly there have been one or two reactions. The first is to make concerts as social media friendly as possible. Can't beat em? Join em. We now call this making gigs Instagrammable and TikTok ready. If fans are going to take videos and pictures, at least give them something interesting to shoot. You can put Coldplay in this category. The other tactic is to crack down even harder. Sick of seeing people distracted by their phones and insisting on watching a gig through their tiny screens to capture videos that will probably never be seen again. Maybe once artists have gone real Hardcore groups like Green Day are always admonishing cell phone obsessed fans from the stage, demanding that they be in the moment. And guys like Jack White won't let you into one of his gigs unless you lock your cell phone in a bag that won't be unlocked until you leave. We've also seen a generational divide. Younger fans consider their mobile phones to be part of the concert experience. Many older concert goers hate that. It's all part of a larger conversation about how technology should be used in public spaces. The bottom line is that we're working on creating some kind of balance. Except if your name is Jack White, of course.
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Come on Man. Item 14 on the list of the top 100 momentous things about rock in the 21st century so far. The rise of cell phones at concerts Three more to go on this episode, and I'm afraid all of them are very, very horrific.
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Alan Cross
The last three items for this episode of the 100 Most Important Moments in Rock so Far in the 21st Century are tragic, awful and have caused no end of pain to many thousands of people. And before we continue, I should warn you that what you're about to hear is very disturbing. It is, however, part of the public record and what investigators used to piece together what happened. We'll start with Paris on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. A series of coordinated attacks across the city culminated with a massacre at the Bataclan Theater where Eagles of Death Metal were performing. At 9:40pm three men entered the venue. White Miles, the opening act, had just finished their gig. Eagles of Death Metal had just started their set in front of about 1500 people when the music started that evening. No one knew about the black rental car that had been parked outside for over an hour. No one seemed to notice the three men inside. They were all French natives of Algerian descent. 23 year old Fouad Mohammed Agad, 28 year old Sami Amamour and 28 year old Ismail Omar Mostafi. They were all heavily armed with automatic weapons and wearing suicide vests. They got out of the car and started shooting. Three people died outside the Bataclan. They then stormed into the theater. Eagles of Death Metal was into their third song of the night. It was called Kiss the Devil. As people fled, gunshots could be heard outside. People were cut down everywhere. Hundreds of people were on the floor, some dead, some injured, some just plain possum. The gunmen fired up into the balconies and bodies fell to the main floor. The gunman paused to reload three or four times and started shooting again. And during those pauses, people ran for the exits. About 20 minutes in, about 20 people were taken hostage upstairs and turned into human shields. At 10:15, one of the terrorists was shot by police on the main floor just as he detonated his suicide vest. The upstairs room with the hostages was later stormed and the terrorists taken out. By 1am it was all over. 90 people died, mostly during the first 20 minutes of the attack. Hundreds were wounded. It took 10 hours to remove all the bodies and even longer to identify everyone because so many people had left their IDs in their checked coats. Jesse Hughes, the singer for Eagles of Death Metal, spoke about what he saw from the stage.
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Jesse Hughes
You know when you watch someone volunt give their life for someone they love, which I saw that night, I didn't just see people getting murdered that no. I saw people jump up and jump in front of bullets for the ones they loved and give their life. I never saw a single coward.
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Alan Cross
Yeah.
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Jesse Hughes
That night I only saw bravery.
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Alan Cross
Eagles of Death Metal and music fans were defiant. On February 16, 2016, the band returned to Paris to finish the show and to pay tribute to those who died, including the group's merch manager, Nick Alexander. I look around and I see. How do I say those? I need our friends. I love you guys so hard and I will never stop rocking and rolling. Can you dig it? The Bataclan Massacre was one of the worst cases of mass murder that we've ever seen when it comes to a music event. But it was not the worst. This leads us to number 12 on our list. On October 1, 2017, the Route 91 Harvest Festival was happening in Las Vegas across the street from the Mandalay Bay Hotel on the Strip in a place known as Las Vegas Village. 22,000 people were there at around 10. Jason L. Dean took the stage. Starting at 10:05 and continuing for 10 awful minutes. 64 year old Stephen Paddock, a Vegas regular who gambled a lot, opened fire on the crowd from room 134 on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. By the time everything stopped, 58 people were dead with two dying later from their wounds. 413 people suffered gunshot wounds and at least 867 people were injured. Paddock was found dead of a self inflicted gunshot wound. A huge arsenal of weapons, 24 firearms, including a bunch of assault style guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition were found in the room. And despite a long investigation, we have no idea what his motivations were. And this remains the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in American history. Like I said, this was a country festival. But this awful event set a lot of security protocols in place that are now used by festivals around the world, especially in America, after what happened at Route 91. US festivals are different places. Finally, for number 11 on this list, we have to include the Hamas attacks on the Supernova Festival in Israel on October 7, 2023. Supernova was an EDM event. It had roots in a Brazilian event that began back in 2000. It was coordinated for the Jewish holidays and was promoted as a celebration of friends, love and infinite freedom. Most of the 3,500 people in attendance were between the ages of 20 and 40. Just after sunrise, the festival came under attack from Hamas fighters as part of a bigger push into Israel. They came on foot, on motorcycles, in trucks and powered paragliders. They were armed with AK47s, assault rifles, hand grenades and rocket propelled grenades. The festival grounds were surrounded and the attackers opened fire on anyone they could see. Many of those who tried to escape were caught and executed on the spot. There were at least 364people killed, including 17police officers. There were hundreds of injuries and a number of festival goers, 40 maybe, were taken hostage and hustled back to the Gaza Strip. There were also many reports of sexual assaults on both men and women. It was the largest terror attack in the history of Israel and the worst massacre of Israeli citizens ever. It was the worst killing of Jews since the Holocaust. Israel, of course, retaliated for the Supernova attack and similar attacks across the country. And since October 7, 2023, tens of thousands of people have died. Since then. There have been investigations, memorials, tributes, exhibitions and documentaries. I don't know what else to say. One of the DJs booked for the festival was a British psych trance artist named man with no Name. People have been waiting to hear him perform tracks like this man with no Name Intelliport. He was scheduled to perform a DJ set at the Supernova Festival in Southern Israel. But then Hamas attacked on the morning of October 7, 2023. That's number 11 on our list of the most momentous things to happen in music since 2000. Let's review our progress with the 100 Most Important Things to happen in rock since the start of the century. At number 20, the concept of selling out becomes okay, because artists need to make a living by opening up whatever revenue streams they can in the digital and streaming era. At 19 was the death of Chris Cornell. 18 is the death of his good friend Chester Bennington. Two months later. At number 17, it's the indie rock revival of the early 2000s. For number 16, it's the tricky concept of how mainstream music became just another niche in the sea of music that's available to us. Then we have the rise of the live nation. Ticketmaster behemoth at number 15. For number 14, I had the rise of cell phones at concerts and how that's changed so much about the live music experience, for better and for worse. And then we got dark for 13, 12, and 11. The Batacline massacre, the Route 91 shooting, and the Hamas attack on the Supernova festival. One of the things that triggered Israel's war on Gaza. We're now into the home stretch for the tenth and final episode in this series. We'll look at a couple of more deaths. I know. Sorry. Along with how new and old technology has mixed and. Well, see if you can think of 10 things that affected music more than anything else over the last 25 years. And without sounding clickbaity, I think number one may surprise you. Meanwhile, you can get all caught up on all the chapters in this series by downloading the podcasts. Feel free to get back to me with what you think of this list so far. Use AlanLancross CA Music News and recommendations every single day at my website, ajournalofmusicalthings.com, get the Daily newsletter. It's free, and we can also meet up on most of the social media networks. And don't forget about my other podcast, Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry. If you love true crime with your music, you're gonna love this. Episodes come out every two weeks and there are a couple of dozen that you can go through right now. Back with top 100 rock moments 10 through one next time. Technical productions by Rob Johnston. I'm Alan Cross.
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Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra User
Something terrible has been happening to all the people I've slept with. New on W Network. It's me. I'm killing people. Breakups.
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Alan Cross
They died in the order you slept.
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Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra User
With them to die for. Your life is in danger.
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Alan Cross
What?
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EBGLIS Advertiser
What? Jesus.
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Snoop Dogg
I will solve this.
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Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra User
Starring Academy Award nominee Stephanie Shu. Dating is already impossible and now people are dying. It's like, can you.
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Alan Cross
I cannot.
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Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra User
Laid. New series premieres Monday, March 24, only on W stream on Stack TV.